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Title
The Violinist
Description
Composition in tones earthy, gray, rose, ochre, green, blue and red. Smooth texture. Picture Oscar Borgerth violinist to the knees, sitting on indoor interior holding violin. The pictured sitting in a chair, turned slightly to the right towards the violin, which held vertically, with the base of the flank resting on her lap. Head tilted slightly down, has a long face, brown hair parted on the right, forehead high and wide. It wears thin-rimmed glasses letting on the poorly defined eyes. Straight nose, thin lips and pointed chin. Serious face and thoughtful. On the right arm resting on her lap, holding the bow and folded on the left arm with fist on the violin's arm, which faces vertically. Wears collared shirt in rose tones, blue tie with geometric printed in red. Pants in gray tones with sharp folds by light and dark areas. Dark background and the bottom half in earthy tones suggesting are boards on the floor and the bottom and top half in green tones. Might falling from the right, illuminating the face of the portrayed and his violin.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Historical Info
Seeing this portrait at the Salão Revolucionário of 1931, Mário de Andrade took note of Portinari’s painting for the first time, as he recounted years later in a newspaper article: "[...] 'The Violinist' was already an admirable work, with its composition and extraordinary strength of design; I was swept up in enthusiasm. [...] In it there was an interior ‘need’ impossible to confuse with a taste for novelty or search for originality, and I believed in the painter unconditionally..." [LV 29, p. 9-10].
Themes
About Person
Oscar BorgerthPerson
Related Event
5
Related Document
55
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Height
110
Width
80
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "C. PORTINARI 931"
